The Fashion Technology Kit for Everyone

Lowering the barriers for #STEAM education

What is StitchKit?

StitchKit is a FashionTech kit made for everyone: from the young student, to teachers, to design professionals and cosplayers. StitchKit contains all the components you need to get started to turn your design projects into awesome wearable projects!

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Our Story

Through MakeFashion, we began running STEAM workshops, introducing people to technology through fashion. This has had such a profound and transformative impact on the lives of the people we teach, as well as ourselves. StitchKit is inspired by the work we have done in this space.

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Who is it for?

StitchKit is for anyone and everyone interested in fashion, technology, wearables, or cosplay and wants to create really amazing things. Whether you're a student, a teachers or a designer, our aim is to reduce the barriers into technology and fashion, letting you be creative.

What's Inside?

StitchKit comes with a custom Arduino-based board (based on the ATMega32U4) that is made specifically for FashionTech and wearables and was designed to withstand movements of daily wear and use. It is compact enough to be incorporated and hidden into your fashion or wearable piece. It also comes with a number of different sensors, such as sound, proximity (distance), light, vibration, buttons (and more), as well as lights…lots of lights!

Highlights

Easy to Use

We've removed the need to solder and made it easier to program our board

Plug and Play Sensors

We're using the Grove sensors, which are plug and play with StitchKit!

LED Strips Galore

StitchKit comes with different light (LED) strips perfect for lots of projects

Sewable LED Strip

We've got the world's FIRST sewable LED strip, ONLY available with StitchKit

Sample Code and Instructions

We'll provide lots of code for sensors, and instructions for doing cool things

StitchKit Community

We're creating a community of StitchKitters, and you'll be a part of it!

Custom Arduino Board

We've created a board that's small and powerful for your fashion tech projects

Great Customer Support

If you get stuck on a project, or need some help, our team is always ready to help!

Project Timeline

April

2013

MakeFashion Founded

MakeFashion's 1st FashionTech Gala

February

2017

StitchKit V1 Prototype

First board created and used to power MakeFashion shows

April

2017

MakeFashion's 5th Annual FashionTech Gala

MakeFashion's 5th FashionTech Gala, where several pieces were powered by StitchKit

July

2017

StitchKit V2 Prototype

Second iteration of board created and used for STEAM workshops

October

2017

StitchKit V2 Prototype

Third iteration of board created and used for STEAM workshops

December

2017

Kickstarter Launched

StitchKit officially launches on Kickstarter!

January

2018

300% Funded on Kickstarter!

We were fully funded and surpassed our goal!!

April

2018

Indiegogo InDemand Campaign

We've had so much demand following our Kickstarter campaign, that we're launching a second one for those who missed out!

Usually, programming knowledge is required to create fashion tech garments, but the StitchKit allows anyone, from children to adults, to create wearable tech without the need for specialized knowledge -
users are just limited by their imagination!